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Light Verse Poems | Light Verse Examples

Dear Liar Can You Hear Me
A liar is a liar however they conspire, Not showing their intentions or true desire, They manipulate by not saying or speaking their truth, They know how to hold back information from you, They test your waters by not opening up, They don't tell the whole story they just say enough, Some can look as innocent and as shiny as gold, But...

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Categories: absence, abuse, anger, beautiful,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Aesthete
The human body may be a marvel, yet the aesthete prefers his were marble or gold or some other precious metal with a life approaching to eternal! For flesh and blood fail miserably as a hope suitable for longevity, requiring daily sustenance for hopeful future permanence. Then, too. human flesh isn’t practical, it offers life that’s neither long nor natural; and who wants a life...

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Categories: wisdom,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Some Impossible Love Story
Goldfish and a handheld mirror mated. Tabloids and truth are rarely conflated. She has a dinky dorsal. Plus, her mind's never full. I saw myself in him, as transparent as I am dim. Witty, no, Big Bird's listed as her closest kin. Waters...

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Categories: 3rd grade, humor, love,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Crying Child
The Crying Child The child cries wriggling limbs Scrolling the heavens Cringing away from the clinging shadows Streaming tears drowning the earth Echoing thunders across the land The land bleeds even as the creators sleeps ...

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Categories: allusion,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Another Life
Another Life One soul two bodies One world another life I curl in pain troubled by yesterday's misery l miss my world as I caught up running through the course of another life ...

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Categories: deep, surreal,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Fin du Monde
For years I refused to drink beer, any beer, awful stuff to my taste. When I did, though, rare as it was, it was only to “fit in” – and to avoid snide and unflattering remarks from friends when I didn’t.. Beer has a long history reaching back to the days of the pharoahs. Even the artisans who...

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Categories: how i feel,
Form: Light Verse
Booty Shakers
He said 'owwww' as she said 'ouchhh'. On a Saturday night. 'Cause back in the day they could hit the dance floor, leaving others grinning , taking notes of their steppin' toes. As the effortless sway from side to side, made them smile, music just right, jamming throughout the night. The DJ was spinning records from the beginning, to the ending,...

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Categories: dance,
Form: Light Verse
Left Right
Keeping to the left or right side of the road, By most is done right, And seldom to chance left. Yet once on the footpath, We forget that which is right, Which leaves no room left, To cross to the left or right, Making room for those on the left, Which should be right, But is too often left....

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Categories: 7th grade, absence, adventure,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Smiles Of Childhood Days
A sudden drizzle gushed along the street, That I wiggled out , romping and playing In my cotton jumpshirt as summer cooled, To allow a downpour of monsoon rain. Swerving through puddles where debris Gathered around little tots' feet, Our lithe bodies slip-skidded, glided On a roller-coaster ride of muddy suds... what fun! Then, I picked dingy...

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Categories: childhood, fun,
Form: Light Verse
Serendipity
You must see serendipity, With purpose simultaneously, The small instances that give you clarity, That leads your heart with sincerety, It is as if I am speaking through and for, For you to open your heart to see more, It's the gentle and unforceful reminders by chance, That guide your life with loves mighty hand, That place where you need to be, Giving your...

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Categories: beautiful, blessing,
Form: Light Verse
In Jesus Name
I saw within the midst of it all, The language, the idols.. the culture and history of the fall, As if they owned the language and created these words long ago, And the population just doesn't know, Groups upon groups of layers unseen, Claiming this is how we built our societies, Staging fools to ruin and desensitizing their beliefs, When Jesus came...

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Categories: birth, blessing, devotion,
Form: Light Verse
i almost slip'd girl
. i could'uv jump'd off ...

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Categories: adventure, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Light Verse
Under the Makeup
What I saw didn't match what I thought I knew, To be you.... It scared me for a moment because you really had me fooled, Standing for something for the world to see, Is it for show or in your heart what you believe, Sorcery at it's best, all that glitters isn't gold, And underneath the makeup is a lost and...

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Categories: change, character,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Crossing Lines
vroom…vroom Toot-toot near miss stay tuned I say highways are not not hard takes a Bard to park this poem vroom…vroom make room I’m here to stay not ruin someone else’s poem near miss stay tuned takes a Bard to take a part in this traffic easy go when it’s light but when it’s heavy write…right…write…left crossing lines make sure they’re not double seeing reality toot-toot vroom-vroom have to cross the line so I don’t hit the accident don’t do a bang up job back at it write...

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Categories: car, writing,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member No Tutelage Needed-humor
fiddling with a magnanimous tootling - no tutelage needed anonymity of the artful dodger - blaming innocent bystander widespread whisper and stare, waving away any hospitality scent swept under the rug - stinker with a wink and a toodle loo ...

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Categories: humor,
Form: Light Verse

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